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Read It Twice
Boy, is it hard to write an effective invention assignment for an employment agreement. First, under US law only a natural person can be an inventor, not a juristic person. When you have an employee whose job is inventing, the solution is to create an automatic assignment to the employer, which is generally done when… Continue reading
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Important New Patent Ownership Decision!
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Sys., Inc. In an important new decision, the Supreme Court held that Congress did not change one of the fundamental precepts of patent law – that the individual inventor is the original owner of invention – obliquely, through an ambiguous definition of “subject… Continue reading
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The Supreme Court and Ownership of Patents
The Supreme Court recently granted certiorari to decide a question of patent ownership. The case is Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. and involves interpretation of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1990. The Bayh-Dole Act discusses, in the case of federally-funded research, the relative rights of patent ownership… Continue reading
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